Joinery 2 Class

This class is for those who want to acquire deeper into the
understanding of joinery. It will be covering most of the joinery that is used
in eastern timber framing buildings like the Buddhist Temple and the King’s Palace.
Whether you are a timber framer or a woodworker who only focuses on furniture making,
this class will help you enormously on constructing the best furniture
possible.

During Taeho’s apprenticeship years, he has focused more on
building temples than furniture because he wanted to improve his knowledge of
joinery and the secrets behind making it last for thousands of years. In a
temple or a King’s Palace building, there are about three times more types of
joints involved than in fine furniture building. His plan has been to utilize
this advanced joinery in his own furniture design, which is represented in his Sitting
Bench/Coffee Table and the Entry Table creation.

The students will be constructing varieties of joints, which
will interlock all together and become one cool structure for future reference or
display in your woodworking collections.

There are no prerequisites to take this class; you will not
need to take Joinery 1. If you have interest in utilizing traditional timber
frame joinery into your own furniture designs and improving your skills and
knowledge in joinery, this class is perfect for it.

What you’ll learn:

How timber frame joinery works

Secrets to withstanding better to earthquakes and hurricane

Understanding the movement of wood

Secrets of how to expand the life of the wood to last thousands of years

Making varieties of traditional joints using both hand tools and power tools

How old western craftsman and the eastern craftsman were associated and relevant to their knowledge of utilizing the wood movement